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Information Asymmetries And The Rights To Exclude, Lior Strahilevitz Aug 2006

Information Asymmetries And The Rights To Exclude, Lior Strahilevitz

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The Law Of Implicit Bias, Cass R. Sunstein, Christine Jolls Jul 2006

The Law Of Implicit Bias, Cass R. Sunstein, Christine Jolls

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Considerable attention has been given to the Implicit Association Test (IA T), which finds that most people have an implicit and unconscious bias against members of traditionally disadvantaged groups. Implicit bias poses a special challenge for antidiscrimination law because it suggests the possibility that people are treating others differently even when they are unaware that they are doing so. Some aspects of current law operate, whether intentionally or not, as controls on implicit bias; it is possible to imagine other efforts in that vein. An underlying suggestion is that implicit bias might be controlled through a general strategy of "debiasing …


Equality And The Dialectic Between Identity And Difference, Michel Rosenfeld Jul 2006

Equality And The Dialectic Between Identity And Difference, Michel Rosenfeld

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Modern equality as derived from the Enlightenment has always had problems with difference. Whereas feudalism set inequality as the baseline, modern society sets equality as the baseline, but allows for unequal treatment based on differences. Thus, differences among the sexes have been invoked to treat women as inferiors and racial differences to deprive racial minorities of equal treatment. Liberalism has countered these moves by promoting a conception of equality as identity according to which race or gender-based differences are irrelevant for purposes of political participation or employment. More recent claims for equality based on identity politics which callfor a type …


Preliminary Results For A Monocular Marker-Free Gait Measurement System, Jane Courtney, Annraoi Depaor May 2006

Preliminary Results For A Monocular Marker-Free Gait Measurement System, Jane Courtney, Annraoi Depaor

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This paper presents results from a novel monocular marker-free gait measurement system. The system was designed for physical and occupational therapists to monitor the progress of patients through therapy. It is based on a novel human motion capture method derived from model-based tracking. Testing is performed on two monocular, sagittal-view, sample gait videos – one with both the environment and the subject’s appearance and movement restricted and one in a natural environment with unrestricted clothing and motion. Results of the modelling, tracking and analysis stages are presented along with standard gait graphs and parameters.


Trial And Error: The Supreme Court's Philosophy Of Science, Susan Haack Apr 2006

Trial And Error: The Supreme Court's Philosophy Of Science, Susan Haack

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An Overview Of High Speed Photographic Imaging, Andrew Davidhazy Mar 2006

An Overview Of High Speed Photographic Imaging, Andrew Davidhazy

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This is an introduction to several topics related to high speed photography from electronic flash to rotating prism and rotating mirror cameras to streak and synchroballistic applications of various high speed maging systems.


Legal Reason: The Use Of Analogy In Legal Argument, Richard A. Posner Mar 2006

Legal Reason: The Use Of Analogy In Legal Argument, Richard A. Posner

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Reasoning By Analogy (Reviewing Lloyd L. Weinreb, Legal Reason: The Use Of Analogy In Legal Argument (2005)), Richard A. Posner Mar 2006

Reasoning By Analogy (Reviewing Lloyd L. Weinreb, Legal Reason: The Use Of Analogy In Legal Argument (2005)), Richard A. Posner

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Fms-Like Tyrosine Kinase 3 Ligand Recruits Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cells To The Brain, James Curtin, Gwendalyn King, Carlos Barcia, Chunyan Liu, Francois Hubert, Carole Guillonneau, Regis Josien, Ignacio Anegon, Pedro Lowenstein, Maria Castro Mar 2006

Fms-Like Tyrosine Kinase 3 Ligand Recruits Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cells To The Brain, James Curtin, Gwendalyn King, Carlos Barcia, Chunyan Liu, Francois Hubert, Carole Guillonneau, Regis Josien, Ignacio Anegon, Pedro Lowenstein, Maria Castro

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The lack of professional afferent APCs in naive brain parenchyma contributes to the systemic immune ignorance to Ags localized exclusively within the brain. Dendritic cells (DCs) appear within the brain as a consequence of inflammation, but no molecular mechanisms accounting for this influx have been described. In this study we demonstrate that Fms-like tyrosine kinase 3 ligand (Flt3L) recruits plasmacytoid DCs (pDCs; >50-fold; p < 0.001) to the brain parenchyma. These pDCs expressed IFN-alpha, the hallmark cytokine produced by pDCs, indicating recruitment and activation in situ of bona fide pDCs within the brain parenchyma. Flt3L did not increase the numbers of conventional DCs, macrophages, or B, T, NK, NKT, or microglial cells within the brain. Our data demonstrate that Flt3L reconstitutes a crucial afferent component of the immune response, namely, professional APCs within the brain parenchyma, and this could counteract the intrinsic systemic immune ignorance to Ags localized exclusively within the brain.


Life's Golden Tree: Empirical Scholarship And American Law, Carl E. Schneider, Lee E. Teitelbaum Feb 2006

Life's Golden Tree: Empirical Scholarship And American Law, Carl E. Schneider, Lee E. Teitelbaum

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What follows is a simplified introduction to legal argument. It is concerned with the scheme of argument and with certain primary definitions and assumptions commonly used in legal opinions and analysis. This discussion is not exhaustive of all the forms of legal argument nor of the techniques of argument you will see and use this year. It is merely an attempt to introduce some commonly used tools in legal argument. It starts, as do most of your first-year courses, with the techniques of the common-law method and then proceeds to build statutory, regulatory, and constitutional sources of law into the …


John Mcgahern And The Commemoration Of Traditional Rural Ireland, Eamon Maher Jan 2006

John Mcgahern And The Commemoration Of Traditional Rural Ireland, Eamon Maher

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Process Modeling For Simulation, John Ryan, Cathal Heavey Jan 2006

Process Modeling For Simulation, John Ryan, Cathal Heavey

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This paper discusses shortfalls in relation to the requirements gathering phases of simulation. While many developments have taken place around supporting the model coding task of simulation, there are few tools available to assist in the requirements gathering phase. This is surprising as it has been reported by several researchers that the requirements phase can absorb twice as much resources as the coding phase. There are numerous process modeling tools available (over 100) that can and have been used to support the requirements phase of simulation. This paper provides a selective review of some of the most important in relation …


When "Victory" Masks Retreat: The Lsat, Constitutional Dualism, And The End Of Diversity, D. Marvin Jones Jan 2006

When "Victory" Masks Retreat: The Lsat, Constitutional Dualism, And The End Of Diversity, D. Marvin Jones

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Book Review (Reviewing Ronald Dworkin, Ed., Justice In Robes (2006) & Scott Hershovitz, Ed., Exploring Law's Empire: The Jurisprudence Of Ronald Dworkin (2006)), Brian Leiter Jan 2006

Book Review (Reviewing Ronald Dworkin, Ed., Justice In Robes (2006) & Scott Hershovitz, Ed., Exploring Law's Empire: The Jurisprudence Of Ronald Dworkin (2006)), Brian Leiter

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Should Coercive Interrogation Be Legal?, Eric A. Posner, Adrian Vermeule Jan 2006

Should Coercive Interrogation Be Legal?, Eric A. Posner, Adrian Vermeule

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Reconstructing Richard Epstein, Eduardo Peñalver Jan 2006

Reconstructing Richard Epstein, Eduardo Peñalver

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Civility And Dissent During Wartime, Geoffrey R. Stone Jan 2006

Civility And Dissent During Wartime, Geoffrey R. Stone

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Treating Religion As Speech: Justice Stevens's Religion Clause Jurisprudence, Eduardo Peñalver Jan 2006

Treating Religion As Speech: Justice Stevens's Religion Clause Jurisprudence, Eduardo Peñalver

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Justice Breyer Throws Down The Gauntlet (Reviewing Stephen Breyer, Active Liberty: Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution (2005)), Richard A. Posner Jan 2006

Justice Breyer Throws Down The Gauntlet (Reviewing Stephen Breyer, Active Liberty: Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution (2005)), Richard A. Posner

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Lay Persons And Community Values In Reviewing Animal Experimentation, Jeff Leslie Jan 2006

Lay Persons And Community Values In Reviewing Animal Experimentation, Jeff Leslie

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The Quest For Tenure: Job Security And Academic Freedom, Mark Adams Jan 2006

The Quest For Tenure: Job Security And Academic Freedom, Mark Adams

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No abstract provided.


Colorblind Must Not Mean Blind To The Realities Facing Black Children, Zanita E. Fenton Jan 2006

Colorblind Must Not Mean Blind To The Realities Facing Black Children, Zanita E. Fenton

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Justice Breyer's Pragmatic Constitutionalism, Cass R. Sunstein Jan 2006

Justice Breyer's Pragmatic Constitutionalism, Cass R. Sunstein

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The pragmatic method is primarily a method of settling metaphysical disputes that otherwise might be interminable. Is the world one or many?- fated or free? - material or spiritual? - here are notions either of which may or may not hold good of the world; and disputes over such notions are unending. The pragmatic method in such cases is to try to interpret each notion by tracing its respective practical consequences. What difference would it practically make to any one if this notion rather than that notion were true? A Concise Statement of the Task: In interpreting a statute a …


Law Of Implicit Bias, The, Cass R. Sunstein, Christine Jolls Jan 2006

Law Of Implicit Bias, The, Cass R. Sunstein, Christine Jolls

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Considerable attention has been given to the Implicit Association Test (IA T), which finds that most people have an implicit and unconscious bias against members of traditionally disadvantaged groups. Implicit bias poses a special challenge for antidiscrimination law because it suggests the possibility that people are treating others differently even when they are unaware that they are doing so. Some aspects of current law operate, whether intentionally or not, as controls on implicit bias; it is possible to imagine other efforts in that vein. An underlying suggestion is that implicit bias might be controlled through a general strategy of "debiasing …


Climate Change And Animals Responses To Global Warming: The Law, Economics, And Science Of Climate Change, Cass R. Sunstein, Wayne Hsiung Jan 2006

Climate Change And Animals Responses To Global Warming: The Law, Economics, And Science Of Climate Change, Cass R. Sunstein, Wayne Hsiung

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Climate change is already having adverse eeds on animal life, and those effects are likely to prove devastating in the future. Nonetheless, the relevant harms to animals have yet to become a serious part of the analysis of climate change policy. Even if animals and species are valued solely by reference to human preferences, consideration of animal welfare dramatically increases the argument for aggressive responses to climate change. We estimate that, even under conservative assumptions about valuation, losses to nonhuman life might run into the hundreds of billions of dollars annually. Whatever the precise figure, the general conclusion is clear: …


Government Secrets, Constitutional Law, And Platforms For Judicial Intervention, Adam M. Samaha Jan 2006

Government Secrets, Constitutional Law, And Platforms For Judicial Intervention, Adam M. Samaha

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American law has yet to reach a satisfying conclusion about public access to information on government operations. But recent events are prompting reconsideration of the status quo. As our current system is reassessed, three shortfalls in past debates should be overcome. The first involves ignorance of foreign systems. Other democracies grapple with information access problems, and their recent experiments are illuminating. Indeed they expose two additional domestic weaknesses. One is a line we have drawn within constitutional law. Courts and commentators tend to treat constitutional issues of public access separately from those of executive discretion to withhold information, but these …


Undue Process, Adam M. Samaha Jan 2006

Undue Process, Adam M. Samaha

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This Article explores the relationship of the US. Constitution to the costs of government decision making. Constitutional law clearly can escalate these costs, as when the Due Process Clauses are read to mandate additional procedure not otherwise favored by decisionmakers. This much is understood But the Constitution and its doctrine sometimes put downward pressure on decision costs. We lack a systematic investigation of when this is, and should be, true. The Article makes three general claims: (1) The entire Constitution tends to reduce decision costs insofar as it is a focal point for confining disputes, and empirical work suggests that …


Modern Public Trust Principles: Recognizing Rights And Integrating Standards, Alexandra B. Klass Jan 2006

Modern Public Trust Principles: Recognizing Rights And Integrating Standards, Alexandra B. Klass

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The public trust doctrine has a long history from its beginnings as an obligation on states to hold lands submerged under navigable waters in trust for the public, to its resurgence in the 1970s as a protector of natural resources, to its influence on state statutory and constitutional law as the public embraced environmental protection principles. However, many have argued that the public trust doctrine has not lived up to its potential as a major player in environmental and natural resources law. This article proposes a new framework for the public trust doctrine as a state tool for environmental protection …


Institutional Review Boards, Regulatory Incentives, And Some Modest Proposals For Reform, Dale Carpenter Jan 2006

Institutional Review Boards, Regulatory Incentives, And Some Modest Proposals For Reform, Dale Carpenter

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It is time to rethink the role of Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) in approving social science research. While most law professors conduct their research in an almost unregulated environment - pouring through cases, statutes, and each other's articles, all without the kind of human interaction subject to IRB regulation - their colleagues elsewhere in the university have been coping for decades with an increasingly intrusive bureaucracy that sometimes undermines basic academic values. Three things seem very clear. First, there are a lot of IRBs - at least 4,000 - and their numbers are growing. Second, they have recently "increased their …


A Parent-Centered Radial Layout Algorithm For Interactive Graph Visualization And Animation, Andrew Pavlo, Christopher Homan, Jonathan Schull Jan 2006

A Parent-Centered Radial Layout Algorithm For Interactive Graph Visualization And Animation, Andrew Pavlo, Christopher Homan, Jonathan Schull

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We have developed (1) a graph visualization system that allows users to explore graphs by viewing them as a succession of spanning trees selected interactively, (2) a radial graph layout algorithm, and (3) an animation algorithm that generates meaningful visualizations and smooth transitions between graphs while minimizing edge crossings during transitions and in static layouts. Our system is similar to the radial layout system of Yee et al. (2001), but differs primarily in that each node is positioned on a coordinate system centered on its own parent rather than on a single coordinate system for all nodes. Our system is …